Streaming? CDs ? Cassettes? Reels? USB sticks? Mp3? Flac? Legal/illegal/Grauzone? What’s your favorite band? Why?

Thx lemmings

  • ambitious_bones@lemmy.world
    8·
    22 days ago

    Large commercial Artists Music is downloaded illegally in various ways. Smaller Artists Music I buy via Bandcamp, Quboz or wherever else they offer it.

    All Music is stored as Mp3 and Flac in a Filen Cloud from where I pull selected Titels and Albums onto my phone and into a Musicolet Playlist.

    Current musical obession: Turkish Psychedelic Jazz

  • miguel@fedia.io
    6·
    21 days ago

    A mix of digital (bandcamp/7digital/pulled from CD - 1,132 albums currently) and physical media like records and CDs. Most of it from my ipod or from my computer which is hooked up to my hifi.

    Favorite this month? Lots of Dropkick Murphys, Anciients, and Illumina A.D.

  • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world
    71·
    22 days ago

    I download the song once using yt-dlp, then I use Musicbrainz Picard to fetch song metadata like author, cover, title, year etc… Then I listen 100% offline in any mp3 player app.

    I send my songs encrypted to pCloud free tier (gpg) just to keep a backup somewhere else.

    In other words, not a single online service on earth know what I’m listening to.

    • dimjim@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      22 days ago

      You might already know this, but yt-dlp has a flag (I believe its --embed-metadata) that will take the album cover, artist/album, etc. and embed it into the mp3. Obviously not as comprehensive as Picard, but might be useful for you!

  • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    22 days ago

    Vinyl and cds. Mostly vinyl. I do stream albums I consider buying in physical form, just to check out if the expense is worth it to me.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    21 days ago

    Streaming mostly, with a little vinyl now and then. A little bit of radio but even that’s usually streaming over the internet.

    Actually, now that I think of it I have a tape I need to run through another tape player to confirm whether the tape is broken, or my tape player is. Bought a Sons of Butcher demo with tracks I haven’t seen elsewhere yet (have heard live) at a show a while back, played successfully once and now it doesn’t. But I only have one of those kinda shitty vinyl+tape+aux+radio+bluetooth players you see on Amazon around christmas, so it’s even odds which is busted.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
    4·
    21 days ago

    I’ve been collecting vinyl for close to 20 years now. I didn’t mean to but bands and labels were just trying to get rid of them in the mid 2000s so I got a dozen or so free records when preordering CDs. About half of them were not on any other format at the time so I got a record player.

    So I mostly listen on that when at home or use volumio as a multi room playback system to stream off qobuz or from a local library on my NAS. I did get into cassettes during the pandemic and do find them rather entertaining.

    Favorite band is easy, its Guided by Voices. As for why I can’t really say except that they rock. You have to be able to see the brilliant uncut pop gems through the lofi tape hiss. Pretty much all their best stuff sounds like a first take demo tape.